Matt Travers, PhD.
Carnegie Mellon University, Systems Scientist, Robotics.
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Christoffer Heckman, PhD.
University of Colorado, Boulder, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Leader of the Autonomous Robotics & Perception Group. Amazon Fellow.
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Justin Hart, PhD.
The University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor of Practice, Computer Science, Fellow affiliated with the Building-Wide Intelligence Project and the Learning Agents Research Group.
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Joydeep Biswas, PhD.
The University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Research includes: perception, planning, and failure recovery for autonomous mobile robots.
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Changliu Liu, PhD.
Carnegie Mellon University, Assistant Professor, Robotics Institute, Leads the Intelligent Control Lab, Research topics include: robotics and human robot interactions, control and motion planning, optimization and optimal control, multi-agent systems, and game theory.
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Dorsa Sadigh, PhD.
Stanford University. Assistant Professor in Computer Science. Primary research is at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and control theory.
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Monroe Kennedy, PhD.
Stanford University. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Director of the Assistive Robotics and Manipulation Lab (ARMLab). Founder of Black in Robotics.
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Khurram Khan Afridi, PhD.
Cornell University. Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Primary research in high frequency power and energy systems. Repeat Entrepreneur.
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Howie Choset, PhD.
PhD. Carnegie Mellon University. Kavcic-Moura Professor of Computer Science. Biorobotics Lab. Repeat Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, The Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute, Bito Robotics, Hebi Robotics, Omnibus MD, and Medrobotics Corp.
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Luis Sentis, PhD.
University of Texas at Austin. Associate Professor, General Dynamic Endowed Faculty Fellowship. Primary areas of research: Controls, Autonomy, and Robotics. Leads the Human Centered Robotics Laboratory. Co-Founder of Apptronik.
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Junfeng Jiao, PhD.
University of Texas at Austin. Associate Professor, Hampton K. and Margaret Frye Snell Endowed Chair in Transportation. Primary areas of research: smart cities, transportation.
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